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Posted by lam77s on 10-28-2004 at15:14:

Roe Article

WOW!

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2004-10-28/

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Posted by bereal on 10-28-2004 at18:43:



Thanks for the link to the article! This is a great article that helped fill in some missing history for me. Of course, I didn't know a whole lot about Mike anyway, but it's great to find out things I didn't know.

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Posted by Mountain Fan on 10-28-2004 at21:43:



Excellent info. I've never seen that much about Mike in one place before. I always wondered if he was embarassed, didn't want to be a bad influence, or what since I never saw that much about him. I'll take honesty anyday and I appreciate him all the more now, after having read all that.

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Posted by Bryan on 10-29-2004 at12:28:

 

Wow!

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Posted by dorfsmith on 10-29-2004 at12:36:

 

Wow, I missed that. Interesting!!! Mike Roe and David Lynch in the same article

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Posted by carl on 10-29-2004 at12:48:



1) I don't think the writer gives Mike's parents enough credit (I've gathered from live comments that they've been behind Mike's music from day one); 2) there IS no Somerset, NJ show ;; and 3) from the WTF department: "If there is a low point to this period, it is the band’s 2001 album, A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows, a guitar-driven album full of overwrought, pseudo-hard-rock posturing and musical and lyrical clichés."

Otherwise, a really good article. My favorite anecdote: "So, what’s a Pentecostal kid to do when his tastes veer more toward Led Zeppelin than “Just a Closer Walk With Thee”? As a teenager, Roe made his first attempts to reconcile the viewpoints. “In 1969, I was 15 and had a group called 'The Brotherhood,’” Roe explained. “That was a Christian [rock] band, but there wasn’t really anything like that at the time.” The biggest show the band ever played was opening for none other than Swaggart himself, to an enthusiastic audience of 15,000 who cheered the band’s Christian rock music with rapturous applause. Swaggart, not to be upstaged, followed up by giving a sermon on the evils of rock ’n’ roll music."

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Posted by dorfsmith on 10-29-2004 at12:54:

 

swaggart is on the next earworms CD

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Posted by carl on 10-29-2004 at12:57:



He was on the last one too. What's yr point?

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Posted by dorfsmith on 10-29-2004 at13:07:

 

No, the real jimmy is gonna be there. I invited him to say a prayer near the end

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Posted by carl on 10-29-2004 at13:11:

But.... But....

But the imitations are so much less offensive....

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Posted by Bryan on 10-29-2004 at13:13:

 

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Originally posted by carl ... and 3) from the WTF department: "If there is a low point to this period, it is the band’s 2001 album, A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows, a guitar-driven album full of overwrought, pseudo-hard-rock posturing and musical and lyrical clichés." ..."

That line surprised me a bit too; though I must admit I agree with him.
Golden Field and Tom Tom Blues are, in my opinion, low points in the 77s catalog.

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Posted by carl on 10-29-2004 at13:16:



Well, I HALF-agree with you, in that case...

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Posted by dorfsmith on 10-29-2004 at13:23:

 

Tom Tom is somewhat of a low point. I love Radioactive

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Posted by dorfsmith on 10-29-2004 at13:24:

  RE: But.... But....

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Originally posted by carl But the imitations are so much less offensive....

Jimmy is looking for any attention these days.

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Posted by carl on 10-29-2004 at13:24:



NOBODY FAITHS WITH THE FUNKY CROW THANG!!!

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Posted by carl on 10-29-2004 at13:26:

RE: But.... But....

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Originally posted by dorfsmith quote: Originally posted by carl But the imitations are so much less offensive.... Jimmy is looking for any attention these days.

Did you bring up the possibility of gymnasts to him?

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Posted by dorfsmith on 10-29-2004 at13:26:

 

He said they have to be male and must look at him like a piece of meat.

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Posted by carl on 10-29-2004 at13:28:



Kinda brings a new meaning to the term "Hamm brother," doesn't it?

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Posted by dorfsmith on 10-29-2004 at13:30:

 

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Posted by FaintScentsOfSewage on 10-29-2004 at13:31:

 

I'll say Crows is a low point. But Tom Tom is good.

but they glossed over a lot of good stuff released after 1989